Biden acknowledges Netanyahu is putting his political survival as priority

Now Joe Biden has said what everyone else has been saying for months. Everything Benjamin Netanyahu does is all about surviving as the leader of Irael. Biden says there is good reason for thinking this. Netanyahu is basically in a cleft stick. He needs a ceasefire in Gaza so that he can get more hostages home before they are all found dead in the ruins of the Palestinian territory. The release of the remaining hostages is crucial to his survival as prime minister. But he can't agree a ceasefire until he has satisfied himself that Hanas has been destroyed, and there's some way to go before that happens, despite Biden's claim that Hamas has been so diminished that it will never again be able to mount another October 7 attack on Israel. If Netanyahu agrees a ceasefire prematurely, then the two most extreme right wing members of his cabinet will resign and the government will fall. Netanyahu has to survive as leader because if he is toppled, his political career will be over and he will face the long-suspended corruption charges that have hovered over his head like the sword of Damocles. So, in order to survive as leader, the war has to go on. There will be no ceasefire. Not for months.